Justice was finally served, in front of a national t.v. audience :) Favorite quote: "...he probably never imagined the tenacity of the plaintiff in this case, some very clever investigative work."
Hamster Lord I agree. Should have just replaced it himself and done the best damn job he could ever do. That would have saved him shit tons of energy and cost.
I couldn't get the police to take my evidence seriously. They considered it a civil matter, and said my only recourse was small-claims court. So I filed a claim locally, and the tv show must have found my claim via a public-records search. I got an invitation to appear, via mail, out of the blue so I called the producer immediately :)
WoW. Intelligent, well mannered, humble, and even tempered. Rare. Can we clone him? A perfect example of a fine young man. I's dotted. T's crossed. Nailed it.
The defendant must have been drinking the night he plowed through the plaintiff's fence and left the scene so he wouldn't get a DWI. The defendant is too old to be living with mommy and daddy, time to kick him out of the next and make him fend for himself. Great detective work and determination on the plaintiff's part.
The show pays the losses for you, so his incentive was to appear on the show so he wouldn't have to pay me in small claims court. Otherwise I would have leined on his precious Scout and I would be driving it around town :)
@@ripamerica7600 No almost all court cases when the Defendant lose's the show not only pays the loser but pays there hotel and air flight to and fro, have you ever noticed that J,Judy will say would you like to walk back home? some 2000 miles away? because CBS pays all peoples (witnesses) hotel and airfare
D: "I would have gotten away with it! If it wasn't for that meddling snoop! and his brother too!" Seriously, you've made Sherlock Holmes look like Scooby-Doo.
actually, the show pays all the winnings/losses...that's the incentive that they have to come on the show; you make a fool and get embarrassed, but then your debt is paid. It's all kind of a ruse :)
When I went down to L.A. to tape this episode I tried to get some friends in to sit in the audience for the taping. They made them sit in the back row because all of the audience are paid "actors"...they're somewhat coached as to how to respond/dress/etc. The episodes are taped in 1 or 2 week sprints where they do a number of "cases" back to back all day and then take a month off. So the audience just sits there all day and would therefore show up in multiple episodes.
Perry Mason, Paul Drake and Della Street could not have done a better job of detection and deduction. I kept expecting the D. to break down and confess in tears.
I'm just a geek who had too much time on my hands, and thought it would be fun to REALLY nail someone on TV; so I made sure I had an airtight case. Though, I did watch a lot of Matlock growing up.
Had I known the Plaintiff I could have told him it was a International Harvester emblem before looking it up either way he did some really clever work and then some in proving his case!! Magnificent impressive work! my hats off to him
THE DEFENDENT COULD HAVE OFFERED TO REPAIR THINGS because that is his line of work, and if his work met everyone's approval he wouldn't have to pay the extra 500.
This guy needs to be a cop. He's smarter than every detective on the police force put together where I live... and he only had access to stuff that regular civilians do, if he had the tools at the departments disposal... He could find out who Jack the Ripper was in a week's time. I think this guy has to have been descended from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Haha. I (plaintiff) moved just a few miles away about 14 years ago. Now have 2 children. I'm always on the lookout for more neighborhood mysteries to solve. Haven't seen the defendant since!
The plaintiff is Batman. You dont drive into Batman's fence and think you'll get away with it. It might take months... but he WILL find you. He'll know who you are. He'll find where you live. I'm surprised he didn't find the defendant at night and knock all his teeth in. The defendant would have shown up and said... "Do you know where I got these scars?"
Tenacious? Who wouldn't be, with the cost of those repairs for those damages? If he can use the internet to do some sluething and source out the culprit, and of course a web developer would be net-savvy enough to know how to, then all the more power to him. Noone likes a hit-and-run. I enjoyed this video btw!
He did a good job getting his case together. I have one concern, however. He said he went over and placed the fixture into the car and it fit, ok fine, but isn't that tampering with an auto? I thought that should have been addressed but giving the circumstances that defendant didn't have a prayer.
The plaintiff should definitely apply at his city's local police department and show them this video as his resume. This guy is a fuckin investigative genius. All the meanwhile the defendant is almost mocking the plaintiff's detective genius and you can tell he is shaking in his boots. LOL @ 100%-0% conviction
